Microservices
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Microservices skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 104 63 69
Rank change year-on-year -41 +6 -17
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 1,673 1,939 3,636
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.78% 4.32% 3.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.43% 4.67% 4.07%
Number of salaries quoted 1,227 975 2,725
10th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £58,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,000 £72,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.07% +11.54% -13.97%
75th Percentile £93,634 £95,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £110,000 £115,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £61,206
% change year-on-year -7.14% +14.37% -9.32%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Microservices falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 68,746 41,496 89,251
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.03% 92.46% 81.73%
Number of salaries quoted 47,319 22,262 63,244
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,822 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £39,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.54%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -9.09%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Microservices relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Microservices job vacancy trend in the UK

Microservices
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices

Microservices
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microservices over the 6 months to 20 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Microservices in the UK

Microservices
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microservices within the UK over the 6 months to 20 June 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -39 1,519 £75,000 +3.45% 440
UK excluding London -77 824 £65,000 -7.14% 315
Work from Home -27 741 £67,500 -3.57% 276
London -9 720 £85,000 +3.03% 200
North of England -48 333 £69,310 -4.40% 103
South East -23 223 £67,500 -3.57% 99
North West -46 182 £75,000 +3.45% 64
Midlands -71 86 £67,500 - 28
South West -76 84 £52,500 -23.39% 44
Yorkshire -32 81 £65,000 -11.79% 22
North East +8 70 £65,000 +2.36% 18
West Midlands -44 61 £77,500 +10.71% 19
East of England -18 43 £60,100 +0.17% 12
Scotland -67 28 £60,000 -23.87% 18
Wales -36 24 £70,000 +34.62% 6
East Midlands -73 24 £64,500 -0.77% 9
Northern Ireland -28 7 £62,500 +25.00% 9
Isle of Man - 3 £35,000 - 1

Microservices
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 25 (1.49%) Apache Spark
2 24 (1.43%) Confluence
3 14 (0.84%) Apache
3 14 (0.84%) IIS
4 13 (0.78%) CMS
5 10 (0.60%) JBoss
6 9 (0.54%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 8 (0.48%) OpenStack
8 6 (0.36%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 6 (0.36%) WordPress
9 5 (0.30%) Apache Airflow
9 5 (0.30%) Drupal
10 4 (0.24%) Camunda
10 4 (0.24%) GeoServer
10 4 (0.24%) nginx
11 3 (0.18%) WebSphere
12 2 (0.12%) Liferay
12 2 (0.12%) NServiceBus
12 2 (0.12%) Sitecore CMS
12 2 (0.12%) Umbraco
Applications
1 9 (0.54%) MS Visio
2 6 (0.36%) PlantUML
3 5 (0.30%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.12%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (0.36%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.30%) Oracle Retail
2 5 (0.30%) Payment Gateway
3 4 (0.24%) Dynamics AX
4 3 (0.18%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.12%) Shopify
6 1 (0.060%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.060%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 888 (53.08%) AWS
2 723 (43.22%) Azure
3 311 (18.59%) GCP
4 251 (15.00%) Serverless
5 169 (10.10%) GitHub
6 166 (9.92%) SaaS
7 139 (8.31%) Azure DevOps
8 119 (7.11%) AWS Lambda
9 100 (5.98%) Amazon S3
10 98 (5.86%) Amazon EKS
11 83 (4.96%) AWS CloudFormation
12 74 (4.42%) Azure Service Bus
13 70 (4.18%) Amazon ECS
14 66 (3.95%) Amazon EC2
15 63 (3.77%) GitHub Copilot
16 61 (3.65%) Amazon SQS
17 59 (3.53%) Azure AKS
18 50 (2.99%) GitHub Actions
19 44 (2.63%) PaaS
20 43 (2.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 64 (3.83%) Broadband
2 24 (1.43%) Network Security
3 12 (0.72%) DMARC
3 12 (0.72%) MQTT
4 11 (0.66%) DNS
5 10 (0.60%) Internet
6 8 (0.48%) Firewall
6 8 (0.48%) VPN
7 7 (0.42%) AMQP
7 7 (0.42%) DHCP
7 7 (0.42%) HTTP
7 7 (0.42%) Hyperconnected
8 6 (0.36%) Cisco ASA
8 6 (0.36%) TCP/IP
9 5 (0.30%) LTE
9 5 (0.30%) RFID
10 3 (0.18%) Modbus
11 2 (0.12%) HTTPS
11 2 (0.12%) SNMP
11 2 (0.12%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 243 (14.52%) MongoDB
2 200 (11.95%) NoSQL
3 183 (10.94%) PostgreSQL
4 120 (7.17%) Elasticsearch
5 112 (6.69%) Azure SQL Database
6 101 (6.04%) MySQL
7 78 (4.66%) Relational Database
8 77 (4.60%) SQL Server
9 49 (2.93%) Redis
10 47 (2.81%) DynamoDB
11 45 (2.69%) Amazon RDS
12 29 (1.73%) Big Data
13 26 (1.55%) BigQuery
14 23 (1.37%) RDBMS
15 13 (0.78%) Pinecone
16 8 (0.48%) Data Lake
16 8 (0.48%) Db2
17 7 (0.42%) DTS
17 7 (0.42%) Geospatial Data
18 6 (0.36%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 199 (11.89%) Git
2 160 (9.56%) GitLab
3 127 (7.59%) Jenkins
4 54 (3.23%) TeamCity
5 49 (2.93%) JIRA
6 48 (2.87%) JUnit
7 38 (2.27%) Cucumber
8 32 (1.91%) Mockito
9 30 (1.79%) Claude Code
9 30 (1.79%) Cypress.io
10 28 (1.67%) CircleCI
10 28 (1.67%) Maven
11 17 (1.02%) Selenium
11 17 (1.02%) Vite
12 16 (0.96%) JMeter
12 16 (0.96%) SonarQube
13 13 (0.78%) Postman
14 12 (0.72%) REST Assured
15 9 (0.54%) Bitbucket
15 9 (0.54%) Spock
General
1 444 (26.54%) Finance
2 303 (18.11%) Social Skills
3 158 (9.44%) Banking
4 149 (8.91%) Public Sector
5 97 (5.80%) Retail
6 95 (5.68%) Analytical Skills
7 88 (5.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 88 (5.26%) Law
8 53 (3.17%) Financial Institution
9 46 (2.75%) Back Office
10 30 (1.79%) Influencing Skills
11 29 (1.73%) Telecoms
12 25 (1.49%) Marketing
13 17 (1.02%) Advertising
13 17 (1.02%) Aerospace
14 16 (0.96%) Billing
15 14 (0.84%) Games
15 14 (0.84%) Legal
16 12 (0.72%) Front Office
17 10 (0.60%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 582 (34.79%) Developer
2 402 (24.03%) Senior
3 340 (20.32%) Software Engineer
4 238 (14.23%) Architect
5 234 (13.99%) Lead
6 148 (8.85%) .NET Developer
7 142 (8.49%) Full-Stack Developer
8 133 (7.95%) Java Developer
9 123 (7.35%) Java Engineer
10 117 (6.99%) Senior Software Engineer
11 116 (6.93%) Senior Developer
12 90 (5.38%) Solutions Architect
13 86 (5.14%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 74 (4.42%) Principal Engineer
15 67 (4.00%) Software Developer
16 60 (3.59%) Lead Developer
17 57 (3.41%) DevOps Engineer
18 53 (3.17%) Senior Java Engineer
19 49 (2.93%) Java Software Engineer
20 44 (2.63%) Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 407 (24.33%) .NET
2 373 (22.30%) React
3 346 (20.68%) Node.js
4 279 (16.68%) Spring
5 264 (15.78%) RESTful
6 256 (15.30%) Spring Boot
7 224 (13.39%) REST
8 203 (12.13%) Kafka
9 168 (10.04%) AngularJS
9 168 (10.04%) ASP.NET
10 167 (9.98%) .NET Core
11 155 (9.26%) Vue
12 134 (8.01%) ASP.NET Core
13 86 (5.14%) HTML
14 82 (4.90%) ASP.NET Web API
15 81 (4.84%) gRPC
16 80 (4.78%) .NET Framework
17 78 (4.66%) CSS
18 72 (4.30%) Blazor
19 66 (3.95%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 497 (29.71%) Cloud Native
2 290 (17.33%) Distributed Systems
3 115 (6.87%) Product Ownership
4 80 (4.78%) Legacy Systems
5 72 (4.30%) Enterprise Software
6 50 (2.99%) Greenfield Project
7 46 (2.75%) Video\Live Streaming
8 45 (2.69%) Over-the-Top Content
9 33 (1.97%) Onboarding
10 32 (1.91%) Algorithms
11 31 (1.85%) Public Cloud
12 29 (1.73%) Data Structures
13 26 (1.55%) AI Agents
13 26 (1.55%) Self-Motivation
14 25 (1.49%) Distributed Architecture
15 23 (1.37%) Mobile App
16 22 (1.32%) Legacy Applications
17 21 (1.26%) e-Learning
17 21 (1.26%) PKI
18 20 (1.20%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 103 (6.16%) Linux
2 43 (2.57%) Windows
3 20 (1.20%) Unix
4 7 (0.42%) CentOS
4 7 (0.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (0.36%) Windows Server
6 5 (0.30%) Debian
6 5 (0.30%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.18%) Android
7 3 (0.18%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.12%) AIX
9 1 (0.060%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 842 (50.33%) CI/CD
2 726 (43.40%) Agile
3 609 (36.40%) DevOps
4 606 (36.22%) Software Engineering
5 464 (27.73%) Full-Stack Development
6 406 (24.27%) Containerisation
7 384 (22.95%) Mentoring
8 348 (20.80%) Test Automation
9 338 (20.20%) Event-Driven
10 330 (19.73%) AI
11 315 (18.83%) Continuous Improvement
11 315 (18.83%) Infrastructure as Code
12 289 (17.27%) Problem-Solving
13 218 (13.03%) Scrum
14 210 (12.55%) Event-Driven Architecture
15 200 (11.95%) Technical Leadership
16 198 (11.84%) TDD
17 188 (11.24%) Coaching
18 185 (11.06%) Clean Code
19 175 (10.46%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 551 (32.93%) Java
2 419 (25.04%) Python
3 410 (24.51%) SQL
4 399 (23.85%) C#
5 376 (22.47%) JavaScript
6 304 (18.17%) TypeScript
7 119 (7.11%) Go
8 50 (2.99%) Scala
9 45 (2.69%) PHP
10 43 (2.57%) Bash
10 43 (2.57%) C++
11 35 (2.09%) Ruby
12 27 (1.61%) C
13 24 (1.43%) Rust
14 23 (1.37%) Bicep
14 23 (1.37%) PowerShell
15 18 (1.08%) PL/SQL
16 16 (0.96%) Kotlin
17 12 (0.72%) Shell Script
18 11 (0.66%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 201 (12.01%) Security Cleared
2 165 (9.86%) Degree
3 135 (8.07%) SC Cleared
4 81 (4.84%) Computer Science Degree
5 58 (3.47%) AWS Certification
6 31 (1.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 31 (1.85%) DV Cleared
7 26 (1.55%) CISSP
8 25 (1.49%) Azure Certification
9 19 (1.14%) Master's Degree
10 15 (0.90%) TOGAF Certification
11 14 (0.84%) DBS Check
12 11 (0.66%) CISM
12 11 (0.66%) Microsoft Certification
13 8 (0.48%) PhD
14 7 (0.42%) BPSS Clearance
14 7 (0.42%) ISTQB
15 5 (0.30%) GIAC
15 5 (0.30%) ISACA
15 5 (0.30%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 118 (7.05%) QA
2 57 (3.41%) Accessibility
3 38 (2.27%) GDPR
4 36 (2.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 24 (1.43%) NIST
5 24 (1.43%) PCI DSS
6 22 (1.32%) SOC 2
7 19 (1.14%) WCAG
8 15 (0.90%) GRC
8 15 (0.90%) NCSC
9 11 (0.66%) Actionable Recommendations
10 8 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials
11 7 (0.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 3 (0.18%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 3 (0.18%) IFRS
12 3 (0.18%) ISO 20022
12 3 (0.18%) ISO 9001
12 3 (0.18%) SEPA
13 2 (0.12%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 2 (0.12%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 487 (29.11%) Docker
2 20 (1.20%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.24%) Firmware
4 3 (0.18%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.12%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.060%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 521 (31.14%) Kubernetes
2 316 (18.89%) Terraform
3 92 (5.50%) Ansible
4 90 (5.38%) Grafana
5 51 (3.05%) Prometheus
6 23 (1.37%) Kibana
7 22 (1.32%) Argo
8 14 (0.84%) Puppet
9 13 (0.78%) Cilium
10 12 (0.72%) Single Sign-On
11 7 (0.42%) HP Fortify
12 4 (0.24%) Packer
12 4 (0.24%) Podman
13 3 (0.18%) Rancher
14 2 (0.12%) Istio
14 2 (0.12%) MIIS
14 2 (0.12%) Nagios
14 2 (0.12%) Opsgenie
15 1 (0.060%) logstash
15 1 (0.060%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 232 (13.87%) Microsoft
2 73 (4.36%) Google
3 52 (3.11%) Oracle
4 45 (2.69%) Typelevel
5 32 (1.91%) OpenAI
6 24 (1.43%) Splunk
7 23 (1.37%) Dynatrace
8 18 (1.08%) AppDynamics
9 15 (0.90%) IBM
10 14 (0.84%) Databricks
11 13 (0.78%) Red Hat
11 13 (0.78%) SendGrid
12 12 (0.72%) Adobe
13 9 (0.54%) Guidewire
13 9 (0.54%) Salesforce
13 9 (0.54%) SAP
13 9 (0.54%) ServiceNow
14 8 (0.48%) Cisco
14 8 (0.48%) CrowdStrike
15 7 (0.42%) OneLogin